"Jack working on the final mixdown of his electro-pop masterpiece. He was having some trouble with the A&R rep at his indie label but got that sorted with a good music lawyer. Now if only he'd stop trying to chase the backing girls!"
YouTube via massivebeatzz "Played a guitar + mini bass track into Roland's MC-09 Mono Synth Analog 303 Modeling with 4 track Looper SAmpler built in. This thing can do more, such as step filtering on the recorded samples which I will explore next time. Linked for some minimal beat-building with the Jomox xBase 09 via MIDI. Unfortunately i only had a mono out cable to get back the sum into the computer - but i wanted to catch this on the fly quickly."
YouTube via AudioMulch "Preview of the soon-to-be-released version 2.0 of AudioMulch Interactive Music Studio. This short screencast demonstrates some uses of the Shaper contraption which are just as applicable to AudioMulch 1.0. Demonstrating at 2:09 that if you're not careful it is possible to drive the Shaper into nasty clipping even after you've gone to the trouble of limiting the output.
the automated metasurface controlling a simple voice synthesis patch. Sadly our screen recording software makes the real-time manipulation of the metasurface seem jumpy -- in reality it's as smooth as yacht rock. Created for the AudioMulch blog: http://www.audiomulch.com/blog"
"My friend Chaz Gentry came over and video taped my explanation of my new DIY synth. I have been working on this funny little project for the last week or so. It is housed in cardboard to make the user interface prototyping development rapid. It obviously still has a long ways to go..."